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I’ve been meaning to write something like this for a while, but it was a flippant tweet from a Sun journalist which eventually provoked me into tweeting a pat on the back to Tim Farron, a party leader I think the Westminster media casually and snobbishly dismisses because he doesn’t conform to their stereotype: